The Antidote to “Black Mirror” Virtual Reality - Facts So Romantic

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    We will take VR far, in creative and unanticipated ways, but it will also be mundane, contrary to the bleak alarm peddled by Black Mirror.Image courtesy Netflix / YouTubeBoth of Black Mirror’s virtual-reality episodes, “USS Callister” this season and “Playtest” in last one’s, presume VR users will be alone, immobile, and unaware of their true surroundings. They’re rendered unconscious in the real world as they’re brought online with simulated people in the virtual one, and this vulnerability is key to the plot of each story. Annabel Jones, the show’s executive producer, said the point of “Playtest”—in which an adventure-seeker gets paid to try out a scary new VR game—was to savor the thrills of the horror genre while holding “a mirror up to now and allow us to stop and think and address, but in an (...)